More Warning Signs In The Culture Of Journalism

The reaction from Don McNeil's colleagues is just as disturbing as his firing

Yesterday Don McNeil Jr., who was a science reporter at The New York Times for decades, and who recently took a star turn as one of the leading journalists on the coronavirus beat, departed the paper. 

This came as a direct result of a recent article in The Daily Beast revealing that McNeil had upset and angered some students on a Times-sponsored trip to…